Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - NFC North Breakdown, News, Mailbag

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Welcome to the show. It is Thursday, June 25th, and we are the fantasy footballers. Back again. Guess who's back? Back again. Mike, the Fantasy Hitman Wright. Hey, everybody. How you doing? Jason Moore. We're getting closer, people. Getting closer to that footballs. And I am Andy Holloway. Welcome to the show. I am a little bit caught off guard by just finding out that information about.

Jason Moore. Yes. Yes. There was quite the conversation before we pushed record. Apparently, you don't burp. Well, I can't burp. Is this scientifically been established? Yeah, there's just... There's been like three times on accident in my entire life that you've burnt. I'll be driving down the road or something and then I'll burp. And I'm like, I freak out excited. Is it like a dog who farts and scares himself? No, it's, it's, I mean, similar, but it's like...

I just, you know, got the golden ticket in Willie Wonka. I literally turned to my wife and I was, I burped. Did you see that? Yeah. That is, you're weird, man. Look at the sun. Apparently when you eat enough double-stuffed Oreos, it coats. Oh my gosh. It's so weird. Get out. Nothing gets out. So if you chug that sparkling water you have next to you, you will not, you will not burp. Let's find out. It's a delicious. That's not good for radio. Okay, he's actually drinking it now. Welcome to the show. We got a good show for you today.

We're talking NFC North, divisional breakdown. We've been going through the divisions telling you all about the guys that are new to the team, fantasy implications for each team. So we're going to go through the NFC North today. We've got a good mailbag section for you as well. Go through some news and notes. Quick question for the day. I like this one. Did you know that I am no longer the only person who has Arian Foster at number one? Numero Uno. I did know that, but only because you told me. That doesn't shock me at all.

Well, good, because other people are coming around to my way of thinking on the running back position this year. It's all about redraft. Redraft. Yeah. And if you want to gamble on his health, which maybe statistically isn't the best thing to do, but if he's healthy, why not? Let me argue with you that it is the best thing to do. Where was that? Was that number fire? Yes, I was about to give credit here to Joseph Juan. Joseph Juan wrote an article today.

He said that Arian Foster is being overlooked, which I completely agree with. Let me read this to you. Foster has still finished as the fifth. Okay, this is injuries considered, right? So the last five seasons, here's his finishing spots. Fifth, 42nd, third, third, and first. That's what he's finished. That's not in order, right? But that's what he's finished the last five years. So if you are playing the odds on injury with Arian Foster or the fear-mongering that goes on about Arian Foster, you might be on the wrong side of the fence.

It's possible. And I'm willing to go down with him. He's looking great in camp. People are saying, like, oh, yeah. When you've been this good for that long and then in camp, you're like surprising people. You're, you know, it's like, whoa, that guy can run. I was listening to another show and they were talking about Jonathan Stewart and it was, oh, if he stays healthy. And I actually had that exact same thought because when I was listening to him, he's going to be a beast. And you're talking about Jonathan Stewart? Yeah.

And of course, yeah, if he's healthy. So your point is very valid of this fear, culture of fear of we worry about the injury, when every single running back, even if they've never been hurt, they still have an almost equal chance to get hurt on every single play. So why not take the absolute very best players? That's what I'm saying.

Now, I mean, it changes if you're not in a redraft league. I mean, Foster, you have to consider time and those things. If you're in a dynasty and you want to go draft Eddie Lacey, I'm not going to, I don't care if you, you know, those top guys are all very similar. But I don't like the fact that Foster's falling down on everybody's boards. And I'm willing to go down with him if his hamstring goes down because he's been so good. And there's so few guys that the coach comes out and just says, you know, I mean, they don't have anybody behind him. And he comes out and says, yeah, we're just going to give him the ball a bunch. Because that's what they've been doing.

Last year he was, when he played, last year he was a monster. Yes. Yeah. So now I'm not alone. So thank you, Joseph Joon of Numberfire for that. You sure you pronouncing that correct? I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure that that's his name though. Let's just call him JJ. JJ from Numberfire. Yeah, he tweeted that over to me today because he knew that I had him high and wanted me not to feel alone anymore. So.

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Kenyon. It's called the Marshaun Lynch of Podcast. He says it's the perfect mix of strength in advice, consistency, and the occasional beast mode moment, which makes you want to go back and watch or listen over and over again. Absolutely a great listen for both the fantasy recommendations and the nonsense banter. That is true. Thank you very much, Kenyon, who I assume is in Seattle. Probably. I don't know where he's from.

Well, he doesn't say, but he's big into beast mode. Yeah, that's probably true. Well, I'm in Arizona, and I'm big into beast mode, too. And that's his initial, A. Kenyon. Oh. But he's not A Kenyon, I don't think, like from Kenya. If we're in Kenya, man, we are going super international. We are all over the place. Not a lot of podcasts. I feel like the percentage of people writing in from Australia has gone up. Is there a revolution happening down under? And Canada. I am shocked by how many entries. I just told my wife today.

This is insane how many Canadians are writing it. It's fantastic. I think that just tells you how big the NFL is. And I honestly, I didn't think it was working, the international expansion, but that's great. That's great stuff. It is. So thanks for that review. We always appreciate those. Go to iTunes. Search for fantasy football. Click on our name. Leave us a review. We appreciate it. They really help the show, and we really appreciate them. You guys want to talk some news and notes? Let's do it. Do it. News and notes from around the league.

All right, let's get into it here. Terrell Pryor has been signed. Yeah. That's it. But not as a quarterback. That's true. As a wide receiver. 26 years old, back at the Combine, I think he ran like, what, 438, 4. He's big, he's fast. However, he was quoted, I believe last year when people were talking about him to do a position change and was quoted saying, I don't know how to catch.

Are you serious? He said that? I'm serious. Well, that probably lends itself to why Cleveland's Tony Grosse says that he has about a 5% chance to make the roster. Yeah, you've got to be able to catch to play wide receiver. Yeah, so just more of an interesting piece of news there. Out of Giants camp, this is not that surprising to me, considering who's out there.

They say Ruben Randall has been the best Giants receiver on the field by a wide margin. I think this... No one else has been out. Yeah, ODB's not out there. Victor Cruz isn't out there. Yeah, but the reason I wanted to talk about this was that Ruben, I don't think Ruben Randall's been talked about enough. I can agree with that. By just the whole community and our show... It's because of ODB. Yeah, and if you look at my rankings, I'm a lot higher on Randall than most, but Randall...

He's coming into his fourth season. He's going to be, he'll be 24. 24 in his fourth season. The guy is still extremely young. He's 6-2. And he finished with 71 catches, 938 yards, three touchdowns. I bet most people did not even realize that he almost had 1,000. And his final two games were massive, about 140 yards, six catches in each. And he had nine games of nine plus targets. And going along with, Jason, did you want to add something there?

No, I was going to say that, you know, we spoke last week about Victor Cruz, not really being the, you know, we don't think he's going to bounce back or have the ability to be Victor Cruz from the past. Until another, at least another year. Exactly. So I don't see, Ruben Randall is the wide receiver too for the Giants. So stat him accordingly. And you can get him late. People are going to sleep on him still. You look lost. No, I'm good. I'm good.

Fred Jackson might be lost. At a Bill's camp, Fred Jackson openly admitted he's competing for a roster spot on that team. That's something that we speculated about a couple of months ago simply because of LaShawn McCoy coming in, the guys they had on their roster and then the cost of keeping Fred Jackson on that team. I still think he'll probably make the team. If he doesn't, I smell the new Dallas running back. Oh, my goodness. I still think the Patriots will scoop him up if he gets released.

But that's sad to me. I don't think that'll happen. You don't think so? Just because of blunt being there and the guys they have. They got a ton of running backs in New England right now. So they certainly don't need them. But they don't always do what other people say makes sense. Fair enough. But yeah, Fred Jackson, if it is the end for him, he's a great player. I think he'll get picked up. The last bit of news here, yeah, I saw this come across. This is more speculating about.

It's just a stat. Yeah, about Alfred Morris, Matt Jones, the fact that Bill Callahan, who's the new coach there. Who was the offensive line coach in Dallas last year? Yeah, he's been to on, and then the Jets before that, right? For three years. So he's actually coached four top nine rushing attacks in the last six years. So his offensive lines. That's pretty good. Yeah, and that team will be running the ball. So moving Alfred up a little bit in your mind? Yeah, it.

What about the Matt Jones thing? Because he's pretty locked in as the third downback. I'm not worried about Matt Jones. Yeah, I don't think I'd be worried about him, but I'd be more curious. I'm more asking you what your opinion of, do you draft Matt Jones? Yeah, as a handcuff, I do, but he'll be similar to Hulu last year. I think he's not going to really cut into the workload. I think Alf is good for 1,000 yards and 8 to 10 touchdowns. I just...